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North American Indians

 

 

 

 

 

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The Indian War

 

Documentary

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qO_IkNfT3Iw

 

 

The Indian Wars

 

Documentary film about the North American Indians in the mid-1800s (3 hrs. 40 min.)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x58MR-McptM

 

or, the same, in 4 clips:

 

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YR2FgxalCU

 

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=qubUz25Uxj0&feature=relmfu

 

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BVO4qnQtj8&feature=relmfu

 

4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28IAI6F0DZc&feature=relmfu

 
 
500 Nations
 

8 episodes on one upload about the North American natives/Indians

 

(Note: Although Mexico was long considered part of Central America, many governments today officially consider Mexico as part of North America,)

 

Documentary film (6 hrs. 15 min.)

 

Begins with an introduction recalling the Indian victory over the US army at the Little Big Horn in 1876 and the last battle fought against the US givernment at Wounded Knee in 1890.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_l1X9lyZV_M

 

 

America's Great Indian Nations

 

Documentary

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MazI9dFA6ME

 

 

 

 

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The Cherokee

 

Trail of Tears

 

Episode 3 of 5 of the 2009 PBS documentary series American Experience

 

In 1838, the US government ordered the army to force some 12,000 Cherokee Indians living in the southeastern U. S. to march west and resettle in the Oklahoma Territory. Some 4,000 died on the way.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2FeqFbr66s (1:29:56)

 

or

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8o0heHXQF8 (1:09:19)

 

 

The Trail of Tears

 

2006 documentary film (1:53:08)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgtcfKSYLgQ

 

 

The Trail of Tears National Historic Trail

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LSkfmCj8Jg

 

 

Trail of Tears

 

Documentary

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HX7Cbdglihw

 

 

 

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The Sioux

 


The Battle of Little Big Horn


Custer's Last Stand

 

1876


 

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Chief Sitting Bull


 

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Chief Sitting Bull


1834 - 1890



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Sitting Bull

 

Documentary from the Biography series

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vz7R9m2CYVE&feature=related

 

 

 


U. S. Army Lt.-Col. George Armstrong Custer

(1839 - 1876)


 

Last Stand at Little Big Horn

 

Documentary

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MieX4jAdyUE&feature=relmfu

 



 

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U. S. Cavalry led by Lt.-Col. George Armstrong Custer massacred by Indians at the Battle of the Little Bighorn on June 25, 1876



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Battle for Little Big Horn

 

"A Good Day to Die"

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60yLVrhksWk&feature=related

 

 

Son of the Morning Star

 

Custer's Last Stand at the Little Big Horn River


June 25, 1876

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaIqVPS6Pr0

 

 

Custer's Last Man

 

"I survived Little Big Horn"

 

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYPgN8XBlA0

 

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mSFdcLQf7k

 

 

Custer's Last Stand

 

Episode from the documentary series Battlefield Detectives

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8bDcD81AiY

 

 

General George Armstrong Custer

 

Episode from the documentary series The Real Wild West

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4ek1gFNS-M

 

 

Sitting Bull's great-grandson recounts history

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnPnWg-B2QY&feature=related

 

 


 

Crazy Horse


 

 

Crazy Horse led the attack against Custer

 

 

Crazy Horse's Account of the Battle of the Little Bighorn

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OU9iyFim4sA&feature=related

 

 

Crazy Horse

 

Biography

 

(2 parts)

 

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5O9umGN73Y0&feature=related

 

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxamJJo4T4c&feature=relmfu

 

 

 

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Front page of Newark (New Jersey) Evening News. June 25, 1876

 

 

 

The Crazy Horse Monument

 

 

The Crazy Horse Memorial

 

Documenary

 

(2 parts)

 

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5T9zWoNBnWE

 

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nCDrKZ4ASw&feature=relmfu

 

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1ejHw-koSg&feature=relmfu

 

4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W74Z1u-bem0&feature=relmfu

 

5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVDHILWl_9w&feature=relmfu

 

 

 

The Last Stand

 

Episode from the documentary series Tony Robinson's Wild West

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgRoISL3Ipg

 

 

 

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The Cheyenne

 

How the West was Lost

 

"The only good Indian is a dead Indian."

 

Episode about the Cheyenne Indians from the documentary series How the West Was Lost

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14MJa8B9D5k

 

 

 

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The Apache

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzafheA2_uQ

 

 

 

Geronimo

 

 

Geronimo

 

Brief biography:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JukBVfMe3GM&feature=related

 

 

The Great Geronimo

 

The Path He Chose

 

Documentary

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DQAsUo44jM&feature=related

 

 

Geronimo

 

Episode 4 of 5 of the 2009 PBS American Experience documentary series We Shall Remain(1:12:07)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyXvqJL0fqU

 

Or in 7 parts:

 

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQTYtsEOh_I

 

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcd9gVDb-uE

 

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwXk4NQC_pg

 

4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe2SU8n21p8

 

5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pl-juPM6qFI

 

6. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFr71Bybujs

 

7. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4e_Wm__Tgs

 

 

 

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The Tragedy of Wounded Knee

 

The Ghost Dance

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EdRT56WK7Q

 

 

Wounded Knee

 

Episode 5 of 5 of the 2009 PBS American Experience documentary series We Shall Remain (1:14:57)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyXvqJL0fqU

 
 
 

 
 
 

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The American Cowboy

 

 

 

 

The First Cowboy

 

Documentary about cattle ranching in Florida

Spanish explorer Juan Ponce De Leon (1460-74? – 1521) introduced horses to North America in Florida

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tid-7WmMXUQ&feature=related

 

 

The Real West

 

Documentary narrated by Gary Cooper (1961)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JlJVDW1Pb0

 

 

The Legendary Cowboys

 

Episode from the documentary series The Real West series

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfgNx4TKC_k&feature=relmfu

 

 

Tony Robinson's Wild West

 

Two-part documentary

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIU_YNDWjZs

 

and

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lftlB4f_CAM

 

 

The Lawman

 

The Law From Behind The Tin Star

 

Episode from the documentary series The Real West

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLztsh6gK9Y&feature=relmfu

 

 

Ten Most Wanted Outlaws

 

Episode from the documentary series The Real West

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqgFsy0gAt0&feature=relmfu

 

 

 

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Kit Carson

 

Christopher Houston ("Kit")

Carson (1809 - 1868)

 

 

Kit Carson

 

Documentary

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLxsSGO2VWE

 

 

 

 

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Billy the Kid


 

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Henry McCarty, also known as William

Bonnie ("Billy the Kid") (1859 - 1881)

 

 

 

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Billy the Kid

 

Who Shot Billy the Kid?

 

Documentary film

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86DwcpCg7Kg&feature=related

 

or

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86DwcpCg7Kg

 

 

Billy the Kid Returns

 

1938 Hollywood movie with Roy Rogers

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjOr39Dbfm0

 

 

The Outlaw

 

1943 Hollywood movie by Howard Hughes

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Vgzl_tImws

 

 

War in Lincoln County

 

Documentary about Billy the Kid

 

In 10 clips; start here:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFYAw9bvRwY&list=PLC51R3MQscmy81-rhsRiTtRMUajiKjrhf

 

 

Billy the Kid

 

2014 American Experience documentary

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJJemTILcUs

 

 

Billy the Kid

 

The True Story

 

Documentary

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBdcWnn4qng

 

 

Who Killed Pat Garrett?

 

The Man Who Shot and Killed Billy the Kid?

 

Episode from the documentary series Intriguing Mysteries of The Old West

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DQXmU7eSpk

 

 

 

 

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Jesse James

 

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Jesse Woodson James (1847 - 1882)

 

 

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The James Gang

 

Episode about Jesse James and his gang from the documentary series The Real West

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scl3FBksOD8&feature=related

 

 

Jesse James

 

American Experience documentary

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9q6Z8GKVMA

 

 

Jesse James

 

1939 Hollywood movie

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjE_sBPCHuM

 

or

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsZETRemWnY

 

 

The True Story of Jesse James

 

1955

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoPs8Ok4_L4

 

 

Jesse James

 

World's Most Famous Outlaw

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JNwuAb6TMs

 

 

Frank & Jesse James

 

The Story Behind the Legend

 

Interview with author Ted Yeatman (2001)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoKNByqJ61I

 

 

Jesse James

 

Episode from the documentary series In Search Of with Leonard Nimoy

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqXrplH31ms

 

 

 

 

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Wild Bill Hickok


 

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James Butler ("Wild Bill") Hickok (1837 - 1876)



 

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Wild Bill

 

Episode from the documentary series The Real West

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1j3Rk5BviSs

 

 

Young Bill Hickok

 

1940 Hollywood movie with Roy Rogers

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XA6Xl9HPHXY

 

 

Wild Bill Hickok

 

Weekly American TV show series in the 1950s

 

Sample episode:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peNfnQEXVKU

 

 

I Killed Wild Bill Hickok

 

1956 Hollywood movie

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXgIxgNcb6s

 

 

 

 

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Wyatt Earp

 

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    Wyatt Earp (1848 - 1929)

 

 

Wyatt Earp

 

American Experience documentary

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho4IT3G7Mk4

 

 

Gunfight at the OK Coral

 

Episode from BBC documentary series

 

Tombstone, Arizona, 1981

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7Jm9y2NjWE

 

 

Showdown at OK Corral

 

Episode from the documentary series Appointment With Destiny

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuAh3delv2k

 

 

 

 

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Doc Holliday

 

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John Henry (Doc) Holliday

(1851 – 1887)

 

 

 

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Doc Holliday

 

Episode from the documentary series The Real West

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLhYHIdgdrY

 

 

 

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Buffalo Bill

 

William Frederick ("Buffalo Bill") Cody

(1846 - 1917)

 

 

 

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Buffalo Bill Cody

 

 

 

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Buffalo Bill

 

Episode from the documentary series The Real West

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMgA1-zCq-U&feature=relmfu

 

 

1908 film footage of Wild Bill

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJ7DZD-zATw

 

 

 

 

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Bat Masterson

 

William Barclay (Bat) Masterson

William Barclay ("Bat") Masterson (1853 - 1921)

 

 

Masterson of Kansas

 

1954 Hollywood movie

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oszC1hOF0M

 

 

Stampede at Tent City

 

1958 episode from the weekly half-hour TV show series Bat Masterson

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARe5_AKhHxQ

 

 

 

 

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The Ox-Bow Incident

 

One of the greatest Hollywood westerns ever made (1943), based on a novel by Van Tilburg Clark about a lynching in 1885

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKYdbvDGEqU

 

or

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBPl6W0QrYQ

 

or in 8 clips, start here:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_K71iXYGlQ&list=PLC5FBBA1CFD5FC5A9

 

 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
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Shake the hand that shook the hand of the Great John L.!
 
 
John L. Sullivan

 
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John Lawrence Sullivan (1858 - 1918), nicknamed The Boston Strongboy and The Great John L., considered the last bare-knuckle world boxing champion and first champion to fight with boxing gloves under Marquess of Queensbury rules (1882- 1892). He won 40 fights, lost 1 and drew in 2.

 
 
 

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John L. Sullivan vs. Jake Kilrain
 
Hattiesburg, Mississippi
 
Last bare-knuckle heavyweight boxing title fight

July 8, 1889

Kilrain gave up after 75 rounds 
 

 
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The Legendary Champions
 
1882 - 1929
 
Documentary about heavyweight boxing champions (1882 - 1928)
 
John L. Sullivan (1882 - 1892)
 James J. Corbett (1892 - 1897)
   Bob Fitzsimmons (1897 - 1899)
    James J. Jeffries (1899 - 1905) retired as champion
      Marvin Hart (1905 - 1906)
       Tommy Burns (1906 - 1908)
        Jack Johnson (1908 - 1915)
          Jess Willard (1915 - 1919)
            Jack Dempsey (1919 - 1926)
              Gene Tunney (1926 - 1928) retired as champion
 
 
 
 
 





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La statue de la liberté




Paris, 1875

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New York, 1886

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First motion pictures

 

E. Muybridge, 1878

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrRUDS1xbNs

 

 

 

Thomas Alva Edison, 1889

(1847 - 1931)

 

 

Thomas A. Edison's first motion picture

 

1889

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDmAxdLvdQ4

 

 

First motion picture with sound

 

Thomas Alva Edison, 1894 - 1895

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6b0wpBTR1s

 

 

Edison's Miracle of Light

 

Episode from the documentary series American Experience

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gH5Ix_Elpc

 
 
 
 

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